Asif Salekin

Asif Salekin is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University's School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering (SBHSE), where he directs the Laboratory for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Sensing (UIS Lab). He holds additional affiliations with the School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering, serves as a Research Affiliate at the Mayo Clinic, and maintains affiliations with SUNY Upstate Medical University and Syracuse University. Having joined ASU as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2024, he previously served as an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University from 2020-2024.

His research spans Human-Centered Computing, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Usable Sensing Security and Privacy within Ubiquitous Computing, with a core focus on integrating computing solutions to advance health assessment and monitoring. His work addresses natural distribution shifts in human-centered applications, algorithmic fairness and bias mitigation, multimodal integration, interpretability of ML inference in healthcare, scalable edge computing solutions, trustworthiness in human-centered sensing, and security and privacy challenges in IoT applications.

His publications demonstrate a strong trend toward health-focused applications of ubiquitous computing, particularly in mental health assessment, substance use disorder monitoring, childhood speech disorders, and chronic disease management. His recent work shows increasing emphasis on robustness, fairness, and privacy in human-centered AI systems, with significant contributions to stress detection, emotion privacy protection, and reliable health monitoring solutions.

• IAAI Deployed Application Award (2021)
• Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Research (UVA CS Department, 2018)
• Nominated for Best Paper Award (AsthmaGuide, Wireless Health 2016)
• CUSE Grant: Innovative & Interdisciplinary Research Grant (Syracuse University, 2021)

Dr. Salekin actively advises multiple PhD students in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering programs, with several successful doctoral graduates. His research has been funded by two National Science Foundation grants and three National Institutes of Health grants. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) and the UbiComp conference. His work spans multiple labs and collaborative teams including the UIS Lab at ASU, Mayo Clinic research teams, and collaborations with medical professionals at SUNY Upstate Medical University.